converting coordinate/reference system on IDRISI SelvaI don't know the software you are using, but simply changing the CRS does not reproject coordinates from degrees to meters or between different projected CRS. You have to use other software like QGIS or GDAL ogr2ogr to do proper reprojection.

OpenLayers Plugin 1.3.6 / Ubuntu 14 Problem?No, the plugin has been moved from the Plugins menu to the Web menu some time ago. Do you have a folder `/home/.qgis2/python/plugins/openlayers_plugin/´ ? Do you have other plugins working? Same version is working for me, with QGIS 2.8.1 from ubuntugis unstable on 14.04.